Critics 1-20 Flashcards
1 - Iago
Coleridge - ‘motiveless malignity’
2 - Othello and Iago
O’Toole - ‘there is no Othello without Iago’
3 - Othello
Koomba - Othello is a ‘victim of racial beliefs’
4 - Iago
Kaatzch - ‘the phonetic affinity between ‘Iago’ and ‘ego’
5 - Desdemona
John Quincy Adams - believed Desdemona earned fate as ‘black and white blood cannot be intermingled’
6 - Desdemona
Rymer (1600’s) - ‘a woman without sense because she married a blackamoor’
7 - Othello
Robert B Heilman - ‘the least heroic of Shakespeare’s tragic heroes’
8
Hopkins - ‘Iago sees Cassio in the role he coveted for himself’
9
Hopkins - ‘Cassio carried a name meaning hollow, of Italian origin’
10
Lux - ‘refusal to drink with men will damage reputation’
11
Coleridge - ‘The perfection of women is to be characterless… everyone wishes Desdemona for a wife’
12
Cox - ‘reputation [was] an essential commodity for men’
13
Alexandera Melville - Iago commits ‘spiteful attacks on others to soothe his sense of social importance’
14
Bayley - ‘Emilia is the mouthpiece of repressed femininity’
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Carol Neely - ‘Emilia acts in accordance with the widely virtues of silence, obedience and prudence’
